The inventive force which devised the categories, worked in the service of our need of security, of quick intelligibility, in the form of signs, sounds, and abbreviations.—"Substance," "subject," "object," "Being," "Becoming," are not matters of metaphysical truth.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The advocate looked downcast, but Torriano consoled him by a fee of six sequins, and everybody went away.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In order, therefore, to prevent those continual contradictions, and arrive at a more stable judgment of things, we fix on some steady and general points of view; and always, in our thoughts, place ourselves in them, whatever may be our present situation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

they are covered with fir of several speceis and the white cedar.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When a stupid fellow once said something at random to him, he asked him whether he had a farm; and when he said that he had, and a large stock of cattle, he said, “Go then and look after them; lest, if you neglect them, you lose them, and that elegant rusticity of yours with them.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

ξύστρα may of course mean the strigil, and some forms of strigil, such as the one shown in Pl.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

These are received by the tanner, fresh, or slightly salted, and are either bought directly from the butcher, or, now more commonly, through the auction markets established in all large towns.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

And even in the case of the stranger suppliant,—in which an apparently spontaneous sympathy manifests itself,—the succor and kindness shown to him arise mainly from his having gone through the consecrated formalities of supplication, such as that of sitting down in the ashes by the sacred hearth, thus obtaining a sort of privilege of sanctuary.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

Above was a spacious hall, connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an immense grated door, called in t
— from Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Harrison Ainsworth

There is a certain something in his appearance that interests me more strongly in his happiness, than I ever felt on so short an acquaintance; and I long for an opportunity of discussing with you, dearest friend, those points that are most immediately connected with this object."
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

The military force consists of a captain, five or six subalterns, and probably two or three hundred soldiers.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

We accosted the friend, feeling instinctively that she was framed of softer stuff, and asked her if the path were a private one.
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

On the one hand, the Judiciary was pronounced to be stripped of its capacity to enforce the laws; crimes, which reached the very existence of social order, were perpetrated without control; the friends of government were insulted, abused, and overawed into silence, or an apparent acquiescence; and, to yield to the treasonable fury of so small a portion of the United States would be to violate the fundamental principle of our constitution, which enjoins that the will of the majority shall prevail.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Your poet launches forth, "full of sentiment sublime as billows," discoursing magnificently on the color of the waves and the glory of the clouds; but gradually he grows white about the mouth, gives sidelong looks towards the stairway; at last, with one desperate plunge, he sets, to rise no more!
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe